Blue with no mods?

Bront

Bront

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2008

Honored Order of Light

W/Me

I had a blue item drop that had no mods once identified. Is this something that happens often? or just a bug?

I regret not taking a screen shot.

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

It happens. I remember IDing a gold Req 8 Katana just to get a Fiery mod. While it technically *is* modded, it was a much bigger slap in the face than getting nothing.

Mesmer in Need

Mesmer in Need

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

[ToA]

fiery dragon swords, even with no mods, never drop white. This is because they have an inherent fiery mod, but it cannot be salvaged. Same with fiery/icey bladed axes.

Bront

Bront

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2008

Honored Order of Light

W/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mesmer in Need
fiery dragon swords, even with no mods, never drop white. This is because they have an inherent fiery mod, but it cannot be salvaged. Same with fiery/icey bladed axes.
That was EXACTLY what droped. Didn't know that, thanks.

Think it was req 8 too.

Fay Vert

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

R/

I've had a gold with no mods

Zedd Kun

Zedd Kun

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2006

The Bretheren Of Chaos [Dark]

Rt/

I've had a green with no mods

Rushin Roulette

Rushin Roulette

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2007

Right here

Ende

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zedd Kun
I've had a green with no mods
Now that would need a SS of for anyone to believe

Ive had a gold FDS drop without a mod... r13 to boot

Pleikki

Pleikki

WTB q8 15^50 Weapons!

Join Date: Nov 2006

???oo ???ugs ???lan [?????????]

Happened me found 7-20 Blue axe with no dmg mod (Yeah low dmg axe can have 7 minimun dmg)

Jetdoc

Jetdoc

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Jul 2005

The Eyes of Texas [BEVO]

D/A

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bront
That was EXACTLY what droped. Didn't know that, thanks.

Think it was req 8 too.
Because the Firey Dragon Sword has an inherent Firey Sword Hilt attached to it, it always drops in at least a Blue color, whether it has additional mods or not.

Akolo

Akolo

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

V??xj??, Sweden

Stop Stealing [agro]

Mo/

i had a purple deadly cesta tyrian with no mods at all >.>

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Well, Tyrian and Factions Wands can be like that.
Most of them suck quite a lot... and the rest suck even more.
Most of the time I just get a +4E^50HP on them, and that with luck.

But blue with no mods I've only seen things like Fiery Dragon Swords, Fiery Gladii, Fiery/Icy Blade Axes...
Well... I've seen the Blade axe once in the Nightfall preview, but since them I've never seen them blue again. Maybe they changed them like the Icy Dragon Sword.

Bront

Bront

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2008

Honored Order of Light

W/Me

Found a gold sword this morning that had an removable 15^50 mod on it. Shame the other mod on it was +33% poison length.

Yawgmoth

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

Blue weapon with no mods is not possible.

While weapons with Gold or Purple names with completely no mods of any kind are not rare at all, blue ones are theoretically impossible.

Blues are treated by the game exactly just as Whites, any White becomes a Blue after putting a mod on it.

"clean" Fiery Dragon Swords are always blue simply because of their Fiery mod that just can't be removed.

EDIT: To clarify, a Blue item with no mods at all is possible if it has an empty inscription slot, but that's essentially like a mod, it's an extra property, that makes the item blue.

VitisVinifera

VitisVinifera

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

Northern California

HoTR

N/Me

yep gotten purps with no mods also....not sure about golds....

last weekend while depopulating raptors in HM, I got a max gold that had no inscription (no inscription slot). I've heard other accounts of the same.

Sometimes mods are just strange in them not showing up once in a while.

Cale Roughstar

Cale Roughstar

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2007

Canada

Guy In Real Life [GIRL]

W/E

I am pretty sure that I have had a few golds with no mods on them. Makes me want to punch a hole in my computer monitor.